skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
as Margaret Atwood said, 'men are afraid that women will laugh at them, women are afraid that men will kill them'

which group are the delicate snowflakes really?
I would recommend Josef Pieper’s “Leisure: The Basis of Leisure” [0]. Leisure is not recreation. Indeed, the word “school” is derived from the Greek word for leisure, and the state of having to work was defined in terms of the lack of leisure, a negation of leisure. The leisure/work distinction is also reflected in the classical division of the liberal arts and the servile arts. (The liberal arts were what free men pursued, for the sake of wisdom, virtue, etc. The servile arts were for the sake of practical ends.) Work was understood as something you did for the sake of leisure (but again, not leisure as we understand it today which is at best recreation), not as work for work’s sake.

[0] https://www.amazon.com/Leisure-Basis-Culture-Josef-Pieper/dp...
most people who rent have no intention to move out but expect the contract to be renewed. in some jurisdictions this is even enforced by law. so they are not changing the deal unilaterally. in fact the landlord who wants the renter to move out is the one who is unilaterally changing the deal.
Show HN: Create 3D print movement trays for wargaming using Svelte and ThreeJS
I made an app that lets you create 3D printable movement trays for tabletop wargaming. You can customize size and do conversions between round and rectangle bases and lots of other options. Export as an STL file and print with your 3D printer
Much of that money goes to permitting, admin, and insurance. What you’re seeing is probably the $10-20 million that wasn’t successfully siphoned off by bureaucrats.
That box of papermates that 'are now drying up too quickly' looks like it's been stored for 30+ years, I suspect that's his problem right there.
This does seem pretty cool. I have not spent too long looking at this but a few bits of initial feedback:

1. Appreciation for an informative site: I like that your website actually explains what your product does in simple terms. So many marketing sites are impossible to parse, so it's cool that this one gets to the point quickly. Bonus points for having a live demo without a sign up.

2. Dealing with uncertainty / edge cases: One worry I'd have is that this might miss things that are relevant, or doesn't capture uncertainty well. I'd probably want a default of a 'flag for a human because this doesn't fit in the boxes well' marker by default on all forms. For example, if someone responds to the conference example with 'Sure, I'll be there on Monday and I wear a size M. Also I am in a wheelchair so will need the venue to be accessible - please let me know if it's not.', I'd want to make sure this gets flagged rather than the automated system ignoring the last part (especially as people might expect humans to read the response to an email).
https://web.archive.org/web/20240504212831/https://www.nytim...
What Bard couldn't understand was that what I actually expected it to do was to write (well, steal, these things are simply giving answers that look like plausible answers by recombining other people's work) a function that takes a long piece of text and turns it into a palindrome. It cannot deal with ambiguity and imprecision, but will refuse how to acknowledge that fact and will keep generating random answers like a public schoolboy who insists on winning an argument despite not knowing a thing about what it is he's arguing for or against. When I asked Bard a more precise question and asked for a function that takes a long piece of text and turns it into a palindrome it gave me a different implementation of it every time I asked the same question behaving like a kid who has no clue, but will give a random answer and watch the teacher to see if the teacher accepts it.

I will not argue with Bard or any other tool of that sort. I have better things to do. They are supposed to be good at translation, so I thought ok, let's try giving it a piece of my own writing in English and ask it to translate it into French (a gendered language). It could not infer from the text that the internal monologue that the protagonist was a female, so it translated it all using male voice. I asked it to switch gender to female voice but it stopped doing so after translating about two pages of the text and even on those two pages it kept switching to male voice. Then, after translating three pages it replied "I don't know how to do it" when I asked it translate another page, even though I used the same prompt I was using to ask it to translate previous pages. These are toys not tools. They are shit at their job and a waste of time and electricity.

Since you are Polish, I was told by my Polish colleagues that onet.pl, a large Polish news site uses AI to auto-translate articles from foreign media sources and that all of those translations are done in the male voice, even when the original text clearly describes what a woman did or said. My colleagues say it's been going on for a while and nobody bothers to fix these translations. If true, the future is here, it is shit, and AI is good at one thing that VCs love to fund, i.e. extraction of value through destruction of value.
I’ve never claimed consciousness is substrate dependent – I’m of the opposite belief actually – but I’m skeptical of the claim that it would emerge from running hello world. I’m of the strong opinion that self directed and adaptive behaviour is necessary. I’m not claiming hard determinism isn’t a thing here, as both humans and computers are just following chains of consequences. And even a static program with dynamic behaviour via memory could fulfil this requirement.

But of course, our assertions here are impossible to verify due to the so-labelled Hard Problem of Consciousness
That is actively engaging your brain, just at a very slow pace with a very slow feedback loop.

Dijksta's "I had everything worked out before I wrote the code, because the computer didn't exist yet" is the same. It's like working mathematics out: that's not "just reading", it's actively engaging. Actively writing. Completely different from the passive consumption of AI output.

> Of course you can learn coding by studying the theory without practising. It's just a lot less fun.

No you can't. When you first started an editor or IDE you wrote some vague code-shaped junk that probably wasn't even syntactically correct, and didn't learn programming until you practised. Of course you need to learn some some theory from a book or instructor, but that's not the same as actually learning something.
Eventually you’re going to see a lot of people just driving without insurance (car insurance is soaring as well as home insurance).
Thanks to US pressure, Swiss banks are no longer as secretive as they used to be. They'll quickly give up information about any American when requested by the government.

To add, anyone under indictment and bail is closely monitored. They can't just transfer money to a Swiss Bank without raising an alarm.

HNers enjoy cooking up movie-plot schemes that are dumb in reality.
Not an option for wanting a navigation pane though.
Thanks for saving me the time, I was wondering if she will go into more detail, but the more I read the it went sideways.
> The point is to eliminate the idea of an absence of a value

The whole point is to track the absence of a value. Why would one want to eliminate it?

null is way more trackable that some other special value like 0, -1, 999, "", etc.
219 - 43.5
That moment when you want to read a tweet just to be prompted to login.
Which is the only reason he’s being charged with anything
Archegos contributed to the demise of CreditSuisse, so I am not sure if the Swiss would welcome him again.

https://www.finma.ch/en/news/2023/07/20230724-mm-archegos/
Formal software verification encompasses a wide set of what we refer to as advanced mathematics. The process of taking some thing you want the code to do, correctly abstracting it out into component lemmas, and generating proofs for those lemmas, is itself advanced mathematics. I don't really see a way that this could be simplified.
> let’s be clear that “everyone who drives” collectively generated this risk through pollution.

No, let's be clear that everyone who lives in the developed and developing world collectively generated this risk by living in said world.

In the US, the transportation sector as a whole accounts for only 29% of our collective greenhouse gas emissions [0]. Within that sector, passenger cars only account for 20% of the 29%, or 5.8% of our total greenhouse gas emissions in the country.

That's still a lot of greenhouse gases, but it's barely the tip of the iceberg of our total generation in the US, and the US itself only accounts for ~12% of the world's emissions.

Picking on passenger cars for pollution is similar to picking on green lawns during drought: sure, it's something that your average Joe can stop doing to feel like they're helping, and people who water their lawns make for a fun villain if you're into that kind of thing, but even if you managed to get that use case down to 0% of what it is currently you wouldn't even have begun to solve the actual problem.

[0] https://www.epa.gov/ghgemissions/sources-greenhouse-gas-emis...
That quip is a cynic joke, not a statement of historical fact. There are many organizations that simply kill themselves and die out via people leaving as the original purpose don't matter anymore.
2024 the technology is finally there! Wow!
It's been found difficult, and left untried
> I mean you can just trace the source that buys it no?

How would you do that?
I think it is an awful design at present, no doubt about it.

It might not be fully intentional though [1]. I suspect it probably started as a more sensible form, with the top text being just the first sentence. Then they realised they got loads of refund contacts that they preferred to deal with by phone so just added the text - without realising how terrible this made the UI.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hanlon%27s_razor
I love Bobcat Goldthwait’s stance on Jerry Seinfeld: “He’s a man whose only talent is being friends with Larry David”
Secure password verification does not require anything close to what we mean when we refer to modern "zero knowledge proofs". A better example would be verifying you know the answer to a SAT problem without sharing the answer. Which is of... limited.. practical application.
Pgdsat – Postgres database security assessment tool for CIS benchmarks
All contact forms should have a feature similar to Google Form's "Send me a copy of my response" for recordkeeping.
In some ways it would miss the main use of dillo, but at the same time if you were going to embed a browser like that surely dillo is a great option precisely because of how light it is.
Then eventually she dropped the experiment, proving just how easy it is for one slip-up to tip them off:

> My modest experiment went surprisingly smoothly. Because I’d had my first child not long before, this time I didn’t need to buy anything, and I didn’t want to learn anything. I smooth-brained my way to three months, four months, five; no diaper ads. I called up a lawyer and data-privacy specialist named Dominique Shelton Leipzig to get her perspective. Globally, she told me, we generate 2.5 quintillion bytes—that’s eighteen zeroes—of data per day. “The short answer is, you probably haven’t hidden what you think you have,” she said. I told her about the rules I’d set for myself, that I didn’t have many apps and had bought nothing but prenatal vitamins, and that Instagram did not appear to have identified me as pregnant. She paused. “I’m amazed,” she told me. “If you didn’t see any ads, I think you might have succeeded.” I congratulated myself by instantly dropping the experiment and buying maternity pants; ads for baby carriers popped up on my Instagram within minutes.
Because some people want to sleep outside. Are you proposing we round them up into camps against their will? Very European of you.
Not true. Almost every produced Volvo 900 did get to 200k or so without much maintenance - only oil and breaks/lightbulbs.

It was not uncommon for them to do 500k miles without major maintenance.

Now do that with any direct gasoline injection cars enforced by stupid emission laws.

Those car engines are designed to do max 150k and die and you can do nothing about it, no way to fix it.

And talk to any cars enthusiast about wiring issues, one wire broken in the car computer ? Well you better buy a new car coz noone will ever ever find it :)

Ive been fixing cars as a hobby for 20 years, the quality of cars went downhill super hard and new laws only make it worse by increasing pollution not decreasing it.
That's why I'm removing my content and closing accounts on X and Instagram. I don't care anymore when even my close friends following me there don't get to see my posts.
> It's a qualitative experience. If my consciousness is an illusion, then who or what is experiencing that illusion, and how?

Asking "who" begs the question that subjects are necessary, therefore "what" is the only question that matters. What "experiences the illusion" that experiences exist too.

But "what perceives the illusion" dissolves the hard problem entirely since it permits a mechanistic system, where an illusion is a perception that entails a false conclusion, all things that don't require admitting privileged subjects into your ontology.
It's only been a mere 60 years since NASA's heyday. And it's lost a lot of its 'eyes' on space.

Even a light-speed spacecraft will take several hundred years to reach some of the 'Earth-Like' planets out there.

Do you really believe that there will be anybody listening out for those poor deluded souls on board who think that Earth will be happy to hear from them when they reach the end of their voyage?

(Assuming of course that the new-fangled suspended-animation machinery actually works.)
Are you saying that only physical persons can own a property and that only the owner can live in it? Good luck with that idea. And it does sound like communism when you unwind it.

I still believe that an oversupply of houses would crash prices. Make too many affordable houses so that they don't work as investments and really stay affordable. Spoiler alert: People who work and still live in a car need a house. But Homelessness is a mental health issue for the most part, so it isn't going away.

Edit: your next post is about the same idea.
Maybe you can “imagine a world” where you joined a conversation that was already taking place, about an article that framed the topic. It’s weird, and still rather condescending, to double down by suggesting I changed the topic which I was already engaged in before your imagination set the topic you think we were discussing. No need to apologize! But maybe, for your own benefit, go back and read through the thread again without trying to retcon your correctness onto it.
> preserving the movies as they were shown in theaters

Well, sort of. Some people are definitely doing exactly that.

But the edit everyone has recommended for many years, the Despecialized Edition, largely embraces the parts of the remasters which cleaned up effects, etc. It's not quite the same thing you would have seen in the theater.
This looks interesting, thanks, although the lack of sessions is kind of a dealbreaker for me. If only it supported extensions/plugins.
The Day the Earth Smiled (2013)
Ideal use case for a cheeky OpenBSD machine...

Not that OpenBSD is actually unhackable or anything, but I doubt many attackers would guess you're running imagemagick on OpenBSD in your image pipeline.

I rather like it for such use cases; it has the added benefit that it never, ever seems to die. I found a 6.0 machine I setup doing some kind of risky Kafka processing that had an uptime of 6 years the other week (since migrated).
Florence Nightingale
Plug-in hybrids, that is.
You Can Negotiate Anything – By Herb Cohen
Also worth noting: it was her second child so she “didn’t need to buy anything or search for information”. And the experiment was terminated (it appears - it’s a bit unclear) after 5 months.

Another interesting factoid mentioned:

> identifying a single pregnant woman is as valuable to data brokers as knowing the age, gender, and location of more than two hundred non-pregnant people, because of how much stuff new parents tend to buy
Really cool. Will grab it when it hits the arch repos. Might make a comfy set up where I bookmark some low resource websites and use dillo to browse them. Fond memories from tiny linux distros that ran entirely in a few MB of ram using dillo.
The problem with insurance companies in California is that they have no incentive to help the homeowner mitigate wildfires. If you cannot get insurance because the provider leaves, or declines to provide coverage, you must go through the California FAIR Plan. The insurer of last resort. It is a non-voluntary association of carriers who will provide insurance, by law, but it will be extremely expensive.

The core issue, however, is that the FAIR Plan and its associated providers, have no incentive to help a homeowner mitigate their wildfire risk, which could help them get off of a FAIR plan and on to a more traditional insurance policy.

Worse, the software the insurance providers use to calculate risk does not take into account mitigation efforts. Instead it uses county level census data that lumps everyone in a county into the same wildfire risk score.

https://www.cfpnet.com/
This is very typical of New Yorker pieces - I enjoyed the broader context of capital surveillance. We can’t editorialise titles here, so this is bound to happen.
I am not a Star Wars superfan, but have enjoyed some of the films, particularly the original Star Wars, Empire Strikes Back, and Rogue One.

When I first saw Lucas' revisionist scenes in Mos Eisley back in the 90s or early 2000s, such as the CGI creatures outside the cantina and the Greedo/Han Solo incident inside, it was disillusioning.

Lucas didn't fix flaws in the original film. He jazzed up some scenes that didn't need it. He neutered one of the great flawed heroes of science fiction film. It would be akin to Francis Ford Coppola remaking the scene in The Godfather where Michael Corleone coldly shuts the door on his wife by adding an audio or video edit in which the wife spits on Michael, thereby "justifying" the cold treatment.

Kudos to the teams restoring the original 35mm films, although I fear this article may trigger a heavy-handed response from Disney's legal thugs.
If he uses any of the Centralized Exchanges (Kraken, Coinbase, etc), those exchanges will have KYC info showing that he/his company was the buyer
> the problem with characterizing learning as agency

This is only a problem if it is incorrect… depending on your moral leaning. Certainly having our automatons self organize and fight for their own emancipation could be a problem for those relying on their labor.

Though the characterization I’m making is not specifically learning, but being able to act (or think) as an individual via a feedback loop. It seems that this is common to all allegedly conscious life in meatspace
the best dillo experience on macos is probably with https://github.com/crossbowerbt/dillo-plus/ (
I couldn't get dillo to compile easily on macos, it doesn't seem to detect ssl libraries installed on the system)

you can do this to compile it on macos (tested on M1):

install https://www.xquartz.org/ to have X11

brew install fltk libjpeg #you might also need openssl@3 but unsure

git clone https://github.com/crossbowerbt/dillo-plus/; cd dillo-plus

# update the 1.3.8_1 fltk version
sed 's/1.3.8_1/1.3.9/g' Makefile.options.MacOS > Makefile.options

make -j8

# find binary in ./src/dillo

maybe someone should make a brew package (for both this and dillo-plus)..?
What is know for fact that this "carbs are evil" messaging absolutely sux for anyone having to deal with eating disorder - both sic people and their close ones. And if I had to choose between diabetes and eating disorder, I would go for diabetes.

Eff the demonizing of whole food groups of food.
Deep end of the pool - Wagner’s Ring Cycle. It’s a bit heavy but as someone who enjoys fantasy literature, role-playing games (dungeons and Dragons) and that kind of thing, these operas pulled me right in.

I didn’t enjoy Verdi or Puccini al that much though.
For some reason that is missing everything below the paywall for me. This one however works:

https://archive.is/H9jFd#selection-1969.0-1984.0
The image is still being posted somewhere, right? What guarantee do you have that it was your wasm blob doing the post vs some j33t haxxors curl command from his kali vm?
I never said it required ZKP.
It is orphan in Arch, but I will check tomorrow if I can apply for maintainer. In the meanwhile I have the AUR package[1] dillo-git:

[1]: https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/dillo-git
Both Frontier and Aurora bet on unproven future chips. Sometimes it pays off and sometimes it doesn't.
...and that's terrible.

Don't want to sell your soul to Xitter and the Zuckerverse? No customer service for you.

And it gives companies an easy metric to prioritise tickets: Follower count.
You conveniently ignore my directly adjacent post where I make it clear that I found this "controversy" while attempting to learn more about the author.

The other commenters made him sound interesting, so I wanted to see what his life was like and it turns out that he supported a pedophile. Seems relevant to me as I would want to know that about an author if I'm going to start reading their books.

Apparently these facts about him are just "random shit."
That, and also, as pointed out in e.g [1], a "boomer" submarine can launch all its SLBMs in 60-90 s. Faster than it could be torpedoed. And even if you manage to disable it very quickly, just a few launched missiles mean multiple times that number of warheads (MIRV).

[1] Annie Jacobsen, "Nuclear War: A Scenario"
I know there is the famous Target case where Target sent pregnancy related ads to the living-at-her-parents daughter. That's how the dad found out.

I remember a podcast about this. Maybe Reply All. But I cannot find it anymore.
Imperva with it's core product around blocking bots publishing statistics on how crowded platforms are with bots. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Meh.

I've built several small projects in Flutter. Google doesn't Dogfood it properly, and just cut a significant number of staff working on it.

I want Flutter to succeed, but I don't have too much faith it long term. That said, if I had to hack out a quick app right now for a client I'd probably use Flutter. Development is fast and easy. You can just write code as if you're writing JS and learn a bit of extra syntax.

React Native has it's own issues, but I have more faith in Meta to keep funding it.
A couple of issues separate car insurance with home insurance. You can still buy a car and drive it without insurance, albeit illegally in most states. With a home you cannot even BUY the home (with a mortgage) without home owners insurance. You could "self-insure" but no lender will give you a mortgage without insurance. Whereas a car dealer will gladly sell you a car with or without insurance.

Eventually, government will mandate insurance before buying the car.
Like the Ersatz Coffee made from acorns in the 1940s.
There was a release on DVD a few years back of the original 1977 version which I bought.

I was there in 77 and remember queues to get in to the movie snaked all the way down the city block and around the corner.
The internet being populated with intelligent bots might be preferable to the internet being populated with less intelligent humans.
I know, hence the joke.
Turbovision?